Annie Zhou

More than fifteen years of experience across philanthropy and community health programming, as well as a passion for health equity are the lenses through which Annie views her role at TCC Group. Her adaptive and collaborative approach brings diverse stakeholders together to find common ground and work towards a shared goal.

Drawn to TCC Group by our value of continual learning, as well as the opportunity to improve grantmaking systems, Annie works with corporate and family foundation clients to design and manage grantmaking portfolios that support community health initiatives, environmental justice, youth development, and other focus areas. Her work spans the full grant lifecycle—from strategy development and RFP design to proposal review, portfolio management, and impact learning. Annie’s clients include ViiV Healthcare, where she oversees the organization’s grantmaking program, a $34 million portfolio which awards grants to community-based organizations fighting the stigma of HIV/AIDS across the country. Key to her work is building connection and community – with grantees, community members, partners, and colleagues – to create something that is greater than the sum of the individual parts, through the grant-making process.

Annie comes to TCC Group from Partners in Health, where she served as the Project Director in the U.S., leading the start-up, implementation, and closeout of a $11.2 million COVID-19 vaccine equity project. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it successfully distributed more than $8 million to dozens of front-line community organizations. In her work at Concern Worldwide in rural Ethiopia, she launched over 20 emergency response projects across 13 districts responding to civil war, drought, floods, and ethnic conflict. With limited resources and facing multiple challenges, she helped successfully reach more than 650,000 women and children experiencing limited access to healthcare with essential health and nutrition services.

Education:

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
  • MSPH, International Health

• Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  • BA, Economics & Spanish

Additional Works:

• Kozuki N, Van Boetzelaer E, Tesfai C, Zhou A. Severe acute malnutrition treatment delivered by low-literate community health workers in South Sudan: A prospective cohort study. J Glob Health. 2020 Jun;10(1):010421. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.010421. 
• Van Boetzelaer E, Zhou A., Tesfai C, Kozuki N. Performance of low‐literate community health workers treating severe acute malnutrition in South Sudan. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2019 Jan;15e12716. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12716.